Hey ppelz, I'm sorry for such the long wait and thanks for being patient.
I'm gonna hold a vote on who you think out of the generals I should pair
the other girls up with. The combos are all up to you guys so you just let
me know what you think.
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^Serena's POV^ The have been going to the garage that Serena keeps all of her cars at for the about 3 days now.
*Just because I've been seeing him for the past 3 days doesn't mean he likes me. Plus I've already promised myself that I'm not going to fall in love, again!* Serena tells herself as she gets dressed. *~He might be the one~* said the voice. *He can't be since all of the people I love usually end up leaving me, dying, or become angry at me.* *~Just because that has happened in the past doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future. ~* the voice replies. *Yes it is and it will always be in my future!* tells her self as she looks at her self in the mirror in her bedroom. *~Just give Darien a chance. You never know, he could be the one for you and to help you see what true love is. ~* the voice argues back to her. *I have seen true love and it loved me, used me, and dumped me!* Serena yells at herself as she throws a heavy mechanics book on her bed with anger.
"Sere, are you okay in there?" comes Sammy's voice from the other side of Serena's bedroom door. "Yea, just tripped over something, don't worry about it." Serena replied as she grabs a pair of socks. "Just so yea know Darien's here to take you to the garage" Sammy tells her and then leaves to go where ever. "Just what I need, maybe if I.I don't know! Something!" Serena mumbles to herself as she seats down on her bed and puts on her socks. "Serena, are you ready?" asked Darien as he knocked gently on Serena's door. "Almost" Serena replied as she stood up and grabs her dirty shoes, that she always wears when she's working in her garage. "Okay" Darien says as he walks away.
*Why does all of the worst shit have to happen to me? I am a good person and don't lie!* Serena thinks to herself as she goes into the bathroom really quick and puts her hair into a really messy, tight bun style, that kept all of her hair out of her eyes and off her shoulders.
"I'm ready Darien" Serena tells him as she walks out the bathroom and into the kitchen for the bottle of water that she put in the freezer last night.
"Okay. Oh before I forget, Ami called me and told me she had been trying to get a hold of you since 7:00 last night to tell that she can't come today." Darien tells her as he stands up. "How come?" Serena asks curious as she puts the bottle in her pocket of extremely baggy pants. "She has to get ready for some kind of test." Darien shrugged. "Oh yea, I forgot all about that." Serena said with a thoughtful look on her face. "Sammy I'm going and I have to talk to you when I get back so don't leave and No! Mika can't come over." Serena says as she and Darien walk out the apartment.
^Darien's POV^ *Damn, why must she tempt me like this? Everyday for the past 3 days I've had to take cold showers as soon as I walk into my house.* Darien says to him self as Serena seats in his car waiting for him to start it up.
*She's tempting me, again with those extremely baggy pants that hang very low off her waist and the black skintight tank top. God, she's enough to send anybody over the edge and beyond.* Darien tells himself as he starts up his car and speeds it off to the garage.
^Serena's POV^ They had been in the garage for about an hour and had managed a lot for just that short amount of time.
"Darien, I'm telling you! We need to redirect the 7th circuit and then reconnect it to the 3rd connector!" Serena yells at him as she points to the different colored wires. "Serena, if we do that, then you would need a higher energy generator then." Darien tells her with an exasperated tone. "I already have a high enough generator to handle that!" Serena tells him as she puts her hands on her hips in annoyance. "Fine, Okay, but if you blow something out, don't blame me since I did warn and try to convince you!" he tells her as he points his finger at her. "Yea, yea" she tells him with a wave of the hand. Serena then does a few things with some wires and then starts up her car with Darien standing a few feet back with a smirk on his face.
*I wish he'd take the damn smirk off his face!* Serena says to herself as she tries out her Communication piece. As soon as she turns on her piece it blasted her ears with static.
"It works!" she says happily, as she jumps out the car and, of course, bumps her head as she gets out. "God damn it! Funk in shit!!! Motherfucker!" she said in a fit of rage and anger as she put her hands on her head and jumped around as she repeats her rant over and over again. "Serena, since when did you cuss so fluently?" as a mockingly shocked Darien as he smirked at her. "Shut up!" she said as she stopped hopping around and just rubbed the spot she had banged on the car.
^Darien's POV^ Darien lets out a low laugh as he watches Serena hop around the garage and rubbing her sore spot on her head.
*Damn, she's even gorgeous when she's in pain! If only I could go over there and console her.* he tells him self as he watches her.
"Can we get back to work now or would you prefer to just hop around the garage and cuss?" Darien asks as he walks over to her engine.
"Don't you dare touch my car!" Serena hisses at him as she sends him a deathly evil glare. "Okay, okay" he says as he lifts his hands up in a surrendering motion. "Did you bring the water pump or carburetor with you?" Serena asks as she seats down on top of her engine. "Yea, did you bring the cords that were going to need to hook up the water pump?" asks Darien as he leans against a Jaguar. "Get the fuck off of my 2003 Jaguar XK series XB8 4.2L 2-Door Convertible!" Serena yells as she pushes him off the car. "Why?" he asks confused. "I just got it a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even broken it in yet!" she says as she goes back to work on the water pump. "Really? They haven't released it yet." He says astounded. "I know. I have some connections in the business world. Over in the Hyundai Tiburon hand me the white connectors along with a tightener." Serena tells him with her out stretched waiting for the stuff she asked him to bring her. "Okay." He says as he walks over to the car and opens the door.
*Damn, she's got the car loaded with all of the good stuff and more.* he thinks to himself as he scans all what's inside the car.
"Here Serena" he says as he puts the stuff in her hand. "Thanks" shed replies as she goes back to work.
~A few hours later~
"Thanks Darien for helping me. We still have about 5 more days to work on the car though." She tells him as she gets into one of her cars. "Serena, how many cars do you have?" Darien asks as he closes the garage. "Umm, in this garage I have about 35. Why?" she asks confused at the question. "In this garage?" Darien asks with a raised eyebrow. "Yea, in this garage I have about 35. I have 10 garages packed with cars, but not all of those cars are only half of them are." Serena says in a matter of factly tone. "Where do you get the money from?" Darien asks questionly. "Well, when I was going out with Dylan he had a lot of money, so he let me spend on whatever I wanted which of course was and still is, cars! And the rest were either presents from my friends or I bought them." Serena says with a shrugs. "Oh" was all Darien says as he goes over to his car. "I'll see you tomorrow, kay?" Serena asks as she turns on her car and turns down the blasting music. "Yea, meet you here at 10:00" Darien says with a grin and gets into his own car. "See yea then" Serena says with a little smile and drives off towards her apartment.
^Serena's POV^ *I hope Sammy hasn't wrecked my apartment!* Serena thinks as she passes a cop.
"God damn it!" Serena mutters as the cop pulls her over. "Serena, you know better then to be going 45 in a 25 zone." The cop says once he gets up to window. "Hey Micheal and yes I know that." She says with an amused smile. "You know I have to ticket you." He tells her as he pulls out his ticket book. "Can't you just let this one pass?" she asks in her innocent little voice. "I've already done that the past 4 times" he replies as he begins to make- out the ticket. "Please, Micheal" Serena tells him as she puts on her puppy dog pout on.
*There's no way that he'll be able to resist this face. His never been able to since the day I've meet him* Serena thinks to herself as she innerly smirks to herself.
"Serena, you know I can't do that" he tells her as he looks at her. "Is there a problem here?" comes a very familiar voice. "Hey Darien and no there isn't, right Micheal!" she says in a demanding voice. "Serena, I can't" he tells her in a flat voice. "But Micheal, if I get a ticket, then Jade will get furious at me which then puts him in a pissed off mood for like a week and if I remember right, aren't you under his authority now?" she asks with a grin. "What's going on here Serena?" Darien asks confused at the situation.
*Damn, he just had to show up here and ruin my work!* Serena screams inwardly.
"You're right. Damn it. Fine, fine. I'll let you go /THIS/ time but next time I catch you I'm going to ticket you." Micheal warns and then goes back to his car. "Bye Micheal, see you later" Serena waves to him as he drives off. "Serena, what was that all about?" Darien asks confused. "Nothing now. Micheal just wanted to give me a ticket." Serena says with a shrug. "You know a please cop?" Darien asks astounded. "Yeap, I know the whole precinct in this district and the ones around here." She says matterly factly. "How is that?" he asks astonished. "Jade's the chief of ours." She replied boredly. "Oh" Darien says stupidly. "I've got to go, but see you tomorrow." Serena tells him and she then speeds off.
*God Damn it! Why did I have to tell him that? Now his probably going to tell everybody and then I'll be banished from yet another race track if not another race circuit!* Serena says to herself as she pulls onto a deserted piece of highway.
*How come whenever I finally get comfortable in a new town and new circuit I always find someway to fuck it up? It's not fair and extremely stressful!* Serena screams to herself.
"My life is just one huge FUCK UP!" Serena screams out loud, as she goes over a hill-type-bump, which causes her car to go flying through the air and land with scrapping noises and fiery sparks. "Some music should help me calm down" Serena reasons to herself as she puts in the first C.D. she grabs, which just so happens to be Bon Jovi and blasts the speakers to the absolute MAX they can go. "Damn it! I just got comfortable in this town. I wonder if I could ask him.No, I refuse to beg some chauvinistic pig! I refuse to!" Serena mutters to herself oblivious to the yelling coming from her communication piece.
"SERENA!" a voice says yelling into her piece and finally snaps Serena from her ranting. "Who the fuck is this and how the hell did you get on my frequency!" Serena asks demandingly as she speeds down and comes to a sudden stop. "Great! I fired my back-ups," Serena mumbles to herself as she gets out her car and pops up her hood, which has smoke bellowing out of it. "Serena!" the voice shouts again. "What!" Serena shouts back with venom dripping from her voice. "Are you okay?" the voice asks with concern apparent in the voice. "Answer my question first and then maybe I'll answer yours!" Serena snaps as she takes a rag from her pocket and starts to take something from her car. "It's Darien" he replies calmly. "Oh, it's you" she says as a single tear drops down her cheek. "What's wrong? You speed off in such a hast that I got worried, not to mention I've been trying to get a hold of you for the past 15 minutes." He tells her. "And? Maybe I just needed to get somewhere!" Serena snaps back, once again. "Okay, so where did you need to go so badly?" Darien asks, still calmly. "A highway" she replies with tears still striking down her cheeks, but not bothering to wipe them away. "Ways that?" "Because I felt like it. Why would you care!" Serena asks demandingly. "Because I do" "Whatever, I have thinks to do" Serena says as she changes to another frequency.
*Why does he torture me like this? What have I ever done to him!* Serena questions herself as she just slumps down and leans against her still burning hot car and just cries out all of her pain and sorrows.
^Darien's POV^
*What's wrong with her? Is it something I said or did? She's still on the air just changed frequencies, but which ones and what did she mean by 'a highway'?* Darien asks himself all this as he speed along the busy streets.
"I wonder why she was so angry at me? I thought she was starting to like me?" he mumbles to himself.
*The closest highway that I know if is the one that the city counsel made off limits. I wonder if she went there? It's only a few miles away, it wouldn't hurt to try there.* Darien tells himself as he speeds up.
^Serena's POV^
"Why does my life have to be one fuck up after another? I haven't done anything to anybody that's bad enough for it to bite me in the ass this bad!" Serena tells herself, still leaning against her car, which by now cooled down to luke warm.
Serena stood up, wiped the tear strikes from her cheeks, and stretched out all of the aches and cramps that had developed from her seats down in the same position for such a long time. She then heads back to her car door, reaches into her car, grabs her cell phone, and pushes a number.
"Hello?" comes from the phone moments later. "Hey Ames, did I wake you?" Serena asks worriedly. "Um, oh Sere. No, I was just studying. What's the problem?" Amy asks with concern. "When is your last big test?" Serena asks questionly. "In about 2 weeks, why?" Amy asks confused. "We've got to move, again." Serena says simply. "Who found out this time?" Amy asks dryly. "Darien" Serena replies. "Okay, I'll tell the others." Amy tells her and then hangs up.
"Now I've got to tell Jade and Sammy," Serena mutters to herself as just throws herself on top of the car and stares up at the stars above her, which she could just barely see due to the city lights that weren't very far off.
"Serena? Is that you over there?" says a voice not to far off. "Um?" asks a sleepily Serena. "Is that you Serena?" asks the voice again. "What?" Serena says as she rubs her eyes for her eyes to get use to the blaring lights that were on her. "Serena?" the voice asks as it comes closer. "Yea?" she asks as she seats up ready for anything. "What's wrong?" the voice asks. Still groggy from sleep and only being able to see a tall silhouette of a person in the lights. "Serena, please talk to me," the voice says to her as a hand is placed on the cars hood. "Please, take your hand off my car's hood and who are you?" Serena asks as she sends the person daggers with her eyes as she jumps off with stealth of a cat. "Do we have to go through this every time I come up to you?" the voice asks with humor evident in the voice. "Whatever, I have a lot on my mind and to do so, if you don't mind and I could careless if you do go away." Tells the whoever is there with a snappish voice as she picks up the rag that had somehow fallen. "No" the voice tells her. "Excuse me?" she asks as she turns around sharply only to land into a hard object.
*Somehow, this seems very familiar. I wonder whom this could be to.No!* Serena thinks to herself as he face shows her recognition.
"I'm glade you've finally remember who I am" Darien says with humor in his voice and lets out a low, husky laugh. "Da-Dar-Darien?" Serena asks in a helpless voice as tears start to prick at both of her eyes. "Serena, don't shut me out. Please tell me what's going on." Darien asks with pleading eyes. "If you're going to tell everybody about me then go on, but please don't play this games with me!" Serena tells him with hopefully a harsh tone, but turned out to be a pleading one instead. "I'm not going to tell anybody anything, and I'm not playing any games with you." Tells her as he brings her body closer to his.
*God, he feels so warm and smells like the city but with a more earthy homey smell* Serena says as leans into him.
They stood that way for a while, until Darien broke the silence. "Why did you think I was going to tell people about Jade being a police chief?" Darien asks as he stares into Serena's eyes. "Because, well every town me and the girls go to something happens that causes either us to get banded from the race circuit there or they just shun us. This is the 4th town that we've been to, since we've started this race circuit." Serena explains as a few tears start to trickle down her cheeks.
Darien looked down at her, just simply brushed his thumbs against her cheeks, then cupped his hands around her face, and made her look into his eyes. "I would never do something like to you," he tells her, as he looks her dead in the eyes. "I've heard that one before and fell for it hook, line, and sinker only to have my heart shattered later on." Serena said in disgust as her eyes turns cold and stony at the thought of Dylan. "What happened?" Darien asks, as he shows nothing but concern for the young woman in his arms.
"It happened when I had just moved here. I was at the local car shop buying some stuff for my new Mercedes. Dylan came up to me and we started talking about stuff, like cars and racing. Well after a few of just being friends we started to become more serious in our relationship and eventually started dating." Serena begins to tell Darien as tears just begin to stream down her cheeks as if a damn had been unleashed.
"Serena, what ever he did to you won't ever happen to you, again!" Darien tells her softly as he hugs her tightly against his body and just as he says that it begins to storm with thunder and lighting.
"Shit! Things just couldn't get worst." Serena says to herself, but Darien hears her. "Why do you say that?" he asks as he looks into her eyes. "I am scared to death of thunder and lighting." Serena whimpers as she clutches tighter to Darien and shuts her eyes tighter. "Shhh, Serena its okay. I'm here and I won't let anything hurt you." Darien whispers to Serena soothingly as he rubs her back slightly. "I know" Serena mutters as she whimpers just as a loud clasp of thunder sounds over head. "How about we leave your car here for the night, since it's in pretty bad condition and I take you home." Darien says to her as he puts a huge black coat over Serena's shivering body. "Okay, I better lock it up and put a tarp over it so that it won't get to much more damage done to it than there already is." Serena says as she reluctantly pulls away from Darien's warm arms and goes over to her car.
^Darien's POV^
*She cares more about her cars than she does about herself. That is something defiantly new.* Darien says to himself as he watches her lock everything up and pull a huge blue tarp from the cars trunk.
*She's defiantly a one of a kind!* Darien agrees to himself as he goes over to Serena to help tie down the tarp around the car securely.
"Thanks" he hears her mutter as she closes the trunk and ties that part of the tarp down tightly. "No problem" he tells her as he then begins to lead her to his car.
*I wonder how she thinks of me?* he begins to think to himself as he watches her from the corner of his eyes as he starts up his car and puts the heater on full blast so that they both would be able to get dried off quickly.
"Thanks Darien" he hears her mumble under her breath as she begins to stare out the window. "Don't mention it," he tells her as he focuses on the slick black road in front of him.
^Serena's POV^
*I can't believe I just told him partially about Dylan, Jade, and what has kind of happened to the girls and me! He told me he wont tell anyone about Jade and that he wouldn't let anyone hurt me like that again.* she says to herself as she gazes out the window and into the pouring rain.
*I don't know if I should trust him. I want to trust him, but I'm afraid to let myself get sucked back into the world of love.*
*~You'll never know if you should trust him if you don't give him a chance~*
*I don't want to have a repeat of Dylan or any of the other guys I've dated* Serena argues with herself.
*~Darien will be different. None of your other boyfriends have told you that they wouldn't let anything hurt you~*
*Oh, shut-up! What would you know? Let me decide this myself!* Serena says to herself, not even noticing that Darien is looking at her weirdly.
"Um, Serena. We're at your place. Are you okay?" Darien says to her as she turns around to him. "What? Oh, thanks Darien. You can come up and dry off if you want." Serena says as she gets out and is followed by Darien.
Once they finally reach her apartment, Serena finds that Sammy isn't home. "Great," she mutters to herself as she goes into the living room. "I'll be back; I'm going to take a shower." Serena tells him as she goes into her bedroom. "Okay" he replies as he seats down on the couch.
^Darien's POV^
*I'm in for a really long wait, if she's going to take one of her really long baths.* Darien says to himself as he mentally sighs to himself.
"What I do for the people I love" Darien mutters to himself as he stretches out on the couch and turns on the T.V.
^Serena's POV^
*Why me? How come I'm always so confused all the time?!* Serena says to herself as she tries to relax in her scolding hot rose smelling bath with her classical music playing at full blast. "This is the life, for awhile" Serena mutters to herself as she messes with a rose shaped tea light the passes by her arm.
An hour later Serena emerges from her bathroom with her hair put up in a messy bun and dressed in a pair of stretchy black yoga pants that rested on her hips and a lose fitting spaghetti strap tank top. "Darien, are you still here?" Serena asks as she goes into the kitchen and grabs a soda from the refrigerator. "Yea, are you feeling better Serena?" he asks as he walks in from wherever he was at previously. "I feel more refreshed, but not better" she answers as she takes a sip of her drink and seats down in one of her kitchen chairs. "What is really bothering you?" Darien asks with nothing but concern in his voice. "I.I don't want to get hurt once again or hurt the other people around me. I.I don't know, I'm just tried of everything!" Serena exclaims as she curls herself into a tight little ball in the kitchen chair she's seating in. "Serena, what do you mean 'you don't want to get hurt once again or hurt the people around you'?" Darien asks as he seats down in the chair beside her. "Darien, all throughout my life every since I was 11 I've always either lost the people that were closest to me or they hurt me terribly. That's the main reason I got into racing, so I could lose myself in the sheer speed and dangerousness of being able to defy the laws of gravity if only for a short amount of time" Serena says as she starts to let the tear drops on her pants as images of her parents dying, Dylan dumping her, her best friend dying and more images came rushing back to her all at once. "Serena, I'm not going anywhere and I wont hurt you" Darien tells her softly as he pulls her into a hug, which she relaxes into and accepts gratuitously. Laughing lightly, "If you only knew how many times I've heard the phrase 'I'm not going anywhere', you'd be surprised." Serena tells him as she gently wipes the tears away, still encircled in his warm arms. "Well, how about I just tell you I won't hurt you and that I'll always be here for you no matter what?" Darien says softly in her ear. She slightly stiffens due to his warmth of his breath, the gentleness of his voice, and his breath in her ear. She relaxes just as quickly as she stiffened, "I like that idea." She tells him as she falls against his body. "I'm glade" he says softly and then they sat that way for a while in just pure blissful silent.
"Serena, I think you should go to bed" Darien says to Serena breaking their blissful silent as he notices her eyelids fluttering close every know and then. "I think you are right" Serena tells him as she breaks out of his warm embrace and begins to stagger to her room, but is then helped by Darien. "Let me help you" he says to her softly as he picks her up princess-style and carries her to her bedroom and lays her gently on her mattress and tucks her in a little. "Good night, Serena. I'll you in the morning to check-up on you." He tells her as he flashes her one of his smiles. "It's okay, I'll be fine" she mutters softly and then drifts off to sleep, but is then meet by Dylan and her repeating the same heartbreak, soul- shattering episode of him dumping her.
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I'm gonna leave her, so let me know what you think, kay ~_* ~*~*~Princess~*~*~
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^Serena's POV^ The have been going to the garage that Serena keeps all of her cars at for the about 3 days now.
*Just because I've been seeing him for the past 3 days doesn't mean he likes me. Plus I've already promised myself that I'm not going to fall in love, again!* Serena tells herself as she gets dressed. *~He might be the one~* said the voice. *He can't be since all of the people I love usually end up leaving me, dying, or become angry at me.* *~Just because that has happened in the past doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future. ~* the voice replies. *Yes it is and it will always be in my future!* tells her self as she looks at her self in the mirror in her bedroom. *~Just give Darien a chance. You never know, he could be the one for you and to help you see what true love is. ~* the voice argues back to her. *I have seen true love and it loved me, used me, and dumped me!* Serena yells at herself as she throws a heavy mechanics book on her bed with anger.
"Sere, are you okay in there?" comes Sammy's voice from the other side of Serena's bedroom door. "Yea, just tripped over something, don't worry about it." Serena replied as she grabs a pair of socks. "Just so yea know Darien's here to take you to the garage" Sammy tells her and then leaves to go where ever. "Just what I need, maybe if I.I don't know! Something!" Serena mumbles to herself as she seats down on her bed and puts on her socks. "Serena, are you ready?" asked Darien as he knocked gently on Serena's door. "Almost" Serena replied as she stood up and grabs her dirty shoes, that she always wears when she's working in her garage. "Okay" Darien says as he walks away.
*Why does all of the worst shit have to happen to me? I am a good person and don't lie!* Serena thinks to herself as she goes into the bathroom really quick and puts her hair into a really messy, tight bun style, that kept all of her hair out of her eyes and off her shoulders.
"I'm ready Darien" Serena tells him as she walks out the bathroom and into the kitchen for the bottle of water that she put in the freezer last night.
"Okay. Oh before I forget, Ami called me and told me she had been trying to get a hold of you since 7:00 last night to tell that she can't come today." Darien tells her as he stands up. "How come?" Serena asks curious as she puts the bottle in her pocket of extremely baggy pants. "She has to get ready for some kind of test." Darien shrugged. "Oh yea, I forgot all about that." Serena said with a thoughtful look on her face. "Sammy I'm going and I have to talk to you when I get back so don't leave and No! Mika can't come over." Serena says as she and Darien walk out the apartment.
^Darien's POV^ *Damn, why must she tempt me like this? Everyday for the past 3 days I've had to take cold showers as soon as I walk into my house.* Darien says to him self as Serena seats in his car waiting for him to start it up.
*She's tempting me, again with those extremely baggy pants that hang very low off her waist and the black skintight tank top. God, she's enough to send anybody over the edge and beyond.* Darien tells himself as he starts up his car and speeds it off to the garage.
^Serena's POV^ They had been in the garage for about an hour and had managed a lot for just that short amount of time.
"Darien, I'm telling you! We need to redirect the 7th circuit and then reconnect it to the 3rd connector!" Serena yells at him as she points to the different colored wires. "Serena, if we do that, then you would need a higher energy generator then." Darien tells her with an exasperated tone. "I already have a high enough generator to handle that!" Serena tells him as she puts her hands on her hips in annoyance. "Fine, Okay, but if you blow something out, don't blame me since I did warn and try to convince you!" he tells her as he points his finger at her. "Yea, yea" she tells him with a wave of the hand. Serena then does a few things with some wires and then starts up her car with Darien standing a few feet back with a smirk on his face.
*I wish he'd take the damn smirk off his face!* Serena says to herself as she tries out her Communication piece. As soon as she turns on her piece it blasted her ears with static.
"It works!" she says happily, as she jumps out the car and, of course, bumps her head as she gets out. "God damn it! Funk in shit!!! Motherfucker!" she said in a fit of rage and anger as she put her hands on her head and jumped around as she repeats her rant over and over again. "Serena, since when did you cuss so fluently?" as a mockingly shocked Darien as he smirked at her. "Shut up!" she said as she stopped hopping around and just rubbed the spot she had banged on the car.
^Darien's POV^ Darien lets out a low laugh as he watches Serena hop around the garage and rubbing her sore spot on her head.
*Damn, she's even gorgeous when she's in pain! If only I could go over there and console her.* he tells him self as he watches her.
"Can we get back to work now or would you prefer to just hop around the garage and cuss?" Darien asks as he walks over to her engine.
"Don't you dare touch my car!" Serena hisses at him as she sends him a deathly evil glare. "Okay, okay" he says as he lifts his hands up in a surrendering motion. "Did you bring the water pump or carburetor with you?" Serena asks as she seats down on top of her engine. "Yea, did you bring the cords that were going to need to hook up the water pump?" asks Darien as he leans against a Jaguar. "Get the fuck off of my 2003 Jaguar XK series XB8 4.2L 2-Door Convertible!" Serena yells as she pushes him off the car. "Why?" he asks confused. "I just got it a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even broken it in yet!" she says as she goes back to work on the water pump. "Really? They haven't released it yet." He says astounded. "I know. I have some connections in the business world. Over in the Hyundai Tiburon hand me the white connectors along with a tightener." Serena tells him with her out stretched waiting for the stuff she asked him to bring her. "Okay." He says as he walks over to the car and opens the door.
*Damn, she's got the car loaded with all of the good stuff and more.* he thinks to himself as he scans all what's inside the car.
"Here Serena" he says as he puts the stuff in her hand. "Thanks" shed replies as she goes back to work.
~A few hours later~
"Thanks Darien for helping me. We still have about 5 more days to work on the car though." She tells him as she gets into one of her cars. "Serena, how many cars do you have?" Darien asks as he closes the garage. "Umm, in this garage I have about 35. Why?" she asks confused at the question. "In this garage?" Darien asks with a raised eyebrow. "Yea, in this garage I have about 35. I have 10 garages packed with cars, but not all of those cars are only half of them are." Serena says in a matter of factly tone. "Where do you get the money from?" Darien asks questionly. "Well, when I was going out with Dylan he had a lot of money, so he let me spend on whatever I wanted which of course was and still is, cars! And the rest were either presents from my friends or I bought them." Serena says with a shrugs. "Oh" was all Darien says as he goes over to his car. "I'll see you tomorrow, kay?" Serena asks as she turns on her car and turns down the blasting music. "Yea, meet you here at 10:00" Darien says with a grin and gets into his own car. "See yea then" Serena says with a little smile and drives off towards her apartment.
^Serena's POV^ *I hope Sammy hasn't wrecked my apartment!* Serena thinks as she passes a cop.
"God damn it!" Serena mutters as the cop pulls her over. "Serena, you know better then to be going 45 in a 25 zone." The cop says once he gets up to window. "Hey Micheal and yes I know that." She says with an amused smile. "You know I have to ticket you." He tells her as he pulls out his ticket book. "Can't you just let this one pass?" she asks in her innocent little voice. "I've already done that the past 4 times" he replies as he begins to make- out the ticket. "Please, Micheal" Serena tells him as she puts on her puppy dog pout on.
*There's no way that he'll be able to resist this face. His never been able to since the day I've meet him* Serena thinks to herself as she innerly smirks to herself.
"Serena, you know I can't do that" he tells her as he looks at her. "Is there a problem here?" comes a very familiar voice. "Hey Darien and no there isn't, right Micheal!" she says in a demanding voice. "Serena, I can't" he tells her in a flat voice. "But Micheal, if I get a ticket, then Jade will get furious at me which then puts him in a pissed off mood for like a week and if I remember right, aren't you under his authority now?" she asks with a grin. "What's going on here Serena?" Darien asks confused at the situation.
*Damn, he just had to show up here and ruin my work!* Serena screams inwardly.
"You're right. Damn it. Fine, fine. I'll let you go /THIS/ time but next time I catch you I'm going to ticket you." Micheal warns and then goes back to his car. "Bye Micheal, see you later" Serena waves to him as he drives off. "Serena, what was that all about?" Darien asks confused. "Nothing now. Micheal just wanted to give me a ticket." Serena says with a shrug. "You know a please cop?" Darien asks astounded. "Yeap, I know the whole precinct in this district and the ones around here." She says matterly factly. "How is that?" he asks astonished. "Jade's the chief of ours." She replied boredly. "Oh" Darien says stupidly. "I've got to go, but see you tomorrow." Serena tells him and she then speeds off.
*God Damn it! Why did I have to tell him that? Now his probably going to tell everybody and then I'll be banished from yet another race track if not another race circuit!* Serena says to herself as she pulls onto a deserted piece of highway.
*How come whenever I finally get comfortable in a new town and new circuit I always find someway to fuck it up? It's not fair and extremely stressful!* Serena screams to herself.
"My life is just one huge FUCK UP!" Serena screams out loud, as she goes over a hill-type-bump, which causes her car to go flying through the air and land with scrapping noises and fiery sparks. "Some music should help me calm down" Serena reasons to herself as she puts in the first C.D. she grabs, which just so happens to be Bon Jovi and blasts the speakers to the absolute MAX they can go. "Damn it! I just got comfortable in this town. I wonder if I could ask him.No, I refuse to beg some chauvinistic pig! I refuse to!" Serena mutters to herself oblivious to the yelling coming from her communication piece.
"SERENA!" a voice says yelling into her piece and finally snaps Serena from her ranting. "Who the fuck is this and how the hell did you get on my frequency!" Serena asks demandingly as she speeds down and comes to a sudden stop. "Great! I fired my back-ups," Serena mumbles to herself as she gets out her car and pops up her hood, which has smoke bellowing out of it. "Serena!" the voice shouts again. "What!" Serena shouts back with venom dripping from her voice. "Are you okay?" the voice asks with concern apparent in the voice. "Answer my question first and then maybe I'll answer yours!" Serena snaps as she takes a rag from her pocket and starts to take something from her car. "It's Darien" he replies calmly. "Oh, it's you" she says as a single tear drops down her cheek. "What's wrong? You speed off in such a hast that I got worried, not to mention I've been trying to get a hold of you for the past 15 minutes." He tells her. "And? Maybe I just needed to get somewhere!" Serena snaps back, once again. "Okay, so where did you need to go so badly?" Darien asks, still calmly. "A highway" she replies with tears still striking down her cheeks, but not bothering to wipe them away. "Ways that?" "Because I felt like it. Why would you care!" Serena asks demandingly. "Because I do" "Whatever, I have thinks to do" Serena says as she changes to another frequency.
*Why does he torture me like this? What have I ever done to him!* Serena questions herself as she just slumps down and leans against her still burning hot car and just cries out all of her pain and sorrows.
^Darien's POV^
*What's wrong with her? Is it something I said or did? She's still on the air just changed frequencies, but which ones and what did she mean by 'a highway'?* Darien asks himself all this as he speed along the busy streets.
"I wonder why she was so angry at me? I thought she was starting to like me?" he mumbles to himself.
*The closest highway that I know if is the one that the city counsel made off limits. I wonder if she went there? It's only a few miles away, it wouldn't hurt to try there.* Darien tells himself as he speeds up.
^Serena's POV^
"Why does my life have to be one fuck up after another? I haven't done anything to anybody that's bad enough for it to bite me in the ass this bad!" Serena tells herself, still leaning against her car, which by now cooled down to luke warm.
Serena stood up, wiped the tear strikes from her cheeks, and stretched out all of the aches and cramps that had developed from her seats down in the same position for such a long time. She then heads back to her car door, reaches into her car, grabs her cell phone, and pushes a number.
"Hello?" comes from the phone moments later. "Hey Ames, did I wake you?" Serena asks worriedly. "Um, oh Sere. No, I was just studying. What's the problem?" Amy asks with concern. "When is your last big test?" Serena asks questionly. "In about 2 weeks, why?" Amy asks confused. "We've got to move, again." Serena says simply. "Who found out this time?" Amy asks dryly. "Darien" Serena replies. "Okay, I'll tell the others." Amy tells her and then hangs up.
"Now I've got to tell Jade and Sammy," Serena mutters to herself as just throws herself on top of the car and stares up at the stars above her, which she could just barely see due to the city lights that weren't very far off.
"Serena? Is that you over there?" says a voice not to far off. "Um?" asks a sleepily Serena. "Is that you Serena?" asks the voice again. "What?" Serena says as she rubs her eyes for her eyes to get use to the blaring lights that were on her. "Serena?" the voice asks as it comes closer. "Yea?" she asks as she seats up ready for anything. "What's wrong?" the voice asks. Still groggy from sleep and only being able to see a tall silhouette of a person in the lights. "Serena, please talk to me," the voice says to her as a hand is placed on the cars hood. "Please, take your hand off my car's hood and who are you?" Serena asks as she sends the person daggers with her eyes as she jumps off with stealth of a cat. "Do we have to go through this every time I come up to you?" the voice asks with humor evident in the voice. "Whatever, I have a lot on my mind and to do so, if you don't mind and I could careless if you do go away." Tells the whoever is there with a snappish voice as she picks up the rag that had somehow fallen. "No" the voice tells her. "Excuse me?" she asks as she turns around sharply only to land into a hard object.
*Somehow, this seems very familiar. I wonder whom this could be to.No!* Serena thinks to herself as he face shows her recognition.
"I'm glade you've finally remember who I am" Darien says with humor in his voice and lets out a low, husky laugh. "Da-Dar-Darien?" Serena asks in a helpless voice as tears start to prick at both of her eyes. "Serena, don't shut me out. Please tell me what's going on." Darien asks with pleading eyes. "If you're going to tell everybody about me then go on, but please don't play this games with me!" Serena tells him with hopefully a harsh tone, but turned out to be a pleading one instead. "I'm not going to tell anybody anything, and I'm not playing any games with you." Tells her as he brings her body closer to his.
*God, he feels so warm and smells like the city but with a more earthy homey smell* Serena says as leans into him.
They stood that way for a while, until Darien broke the silence. "Why did you think I was going to tell people about Jade being a police chief?" Darien asks as he stares into Serena's eyes. "Because, well every town me and the girls go to something happens that causes either us to get banded from the race circuit there or they just shun us. This is the 4th town that we've been to, since we've started this race circuit." Serena explains as a few tears start to trickle down her cheeks.
Darien looked down at her, just simply brushed his thumbs against her cheeks, then cupped his hands around her face, and made her look into his eyes. "I would never do something like to you," he tells her, as he looks her dead in the eyes. "I've heard that one before and fell for it hook, line, and sinker only to have my heart shattered later on." Serena said in disgust as her eyes turns cold and stony at the thought of Dylan. "What happened?" Darien asks, as he shows nothing but concern for the young woman in his arms.
"It happened when I had just moved here. I was at the local car shop buying some stuff for my new Mercedes. Dylan came up to me and we started talking about stuff, like cars and racing. Well after a few of just being friends we started to become more serious in our relationship and eventually started dating." Serena begins to tell Darien as tears just begin to stream down her cheeks as if a damn had been unleashed.
"Serena, what ever he did to you won't ever happen to you, again!" Darien tells her softly as he hugs her tightly against his body and just as he says that it begins to storm with thunder and lighting.
"Shit! Things just couldn't get worst." Serena says to herself, but Darien hears her. "Why do you say that?" he asks as he looks into her eyes. "I am scared to death of thunder and lighting." Serena whimpers as she clutches tighter to Darien and shuts her eyes tighter. "Shhh, Serena its okay. I'm here and I won't let anything hurt you." Darien whispers to Serena soothingly as he rubs her back slightly. "I know" Serena mutters as she whimpers just as a loud clasp of thunder sounds over head. "How about we leave your car here for the night, since it's in pretty bad condition and I take you home." Darien says to her as he puts a huge black coat over Serena's shivering body. "Okay, I better lock it up and put a tarp over it so that it won't get to much more damage done to it than there already is." Serena says as she reluctantly pulls away from Darien's warm arms and goes over to her car.
^Darien's POV^
*She cares more about her cars than she does about herself. That is something defiantly new.* Darien says to himself as he watches her lock everything up and pull a huge blue tarp from the cars trunk.
*She's defiantly a one of a kind!* Darien agrees to himself as he goes over to Serena to help tie down the tarp around the car securely.
"Thanks" he hears her mutter as she closes the trunk and ties that part of the tarp down tightly. "No problem" he tells her as he then begins to lead her to his car.
*I wonder how she thinks of me?* he begins to think to himself as he watches her from the corner of his eyes as he starts up his car and puts the heater on full blast so that they both would be able to get dried off quickly.
"Thanks Darien" he hears her mumble under her breath as she begins to stare out the window. "Don't mention it," he tells her as he focuses on the slick black road in front of him.
^Serena's POV^
*I can't believe I just told him partially about Dylan, Jade, and what has kind of happened to the girls and me! He told me he wont tell anyone about Jade and that he wouldn't let anyone hurt me like that again.* she says to herself as she gazes out the window and into the pouring rain.
*I don't know if I should trust him. I want to trust him, but I'm afraid to let myself get sucked back into the world of love.*
*~You'll never know if you should trust him if you don't give him a chance~*
*I don't want to have a repeat of Dylan or any of the other guys I've dated* Serena argues with herself.
*~Darien will be different. None of your other boyfriends have told you that they wouldn't let anything hurt you~*
*Oh, shut-up! What would you know? Let me decide this myself!* Serena says to herself, not even noticing that Darien is looking at her weirdly.
"Um, Serena. We're at your place. Are you okay?" Darien says to her as she turns around to him. "What? Oh, thanks Darien. You can come up and dry off if you want." Serena says as she gets out and is followed by Darien.
Once they finally reach her apartment, Serena finds that Sammy isn't home. "Great," she mutters to herself as she goes into the living room. "I'll be back; I'm going to take a shower." Serena tells him as she goes into her bedroom. "Okay" he replies as he seats down on the couch.
^Darien's POV^
*I'm in for a really long wait, if she's going to take one of her really long baths.* Darien says to himself as he mentally sighs to himself.
"What I do for the people I love" Darien mutters to himself as he stretches out on the couch and turns on the T.V.
^Serena's POV^
*Why me? How come I'm always so confused all the time?!* Serena says to herself as she tries to relax in her scolding hot rose smelling bath with her classical music playing at full blast. "This is the life, for awhile" Serena mutters to herself as she messes with a rose shaped tea light the passes by her arm.
An hour later Serena emerges from her bathroom with her hair put up in a messy bun and dressed in a pair of stretchy black yoga pants that rested on her hips and a lose fitting spaghetti strap tank top. "Darien, are you still here?" Serena asks as she goes into the kitchen and grabs a soda from the refrigerator. "Yea, are you feeling better Serena?" he asks as he walks in from wherever he was at previously. "I feel more refreshed, but not better" she answers as she takes a sip of her drink and seats down in one of her kitchen chairs. "What is really bothering you?" Darien asks with nothing but concern in his voice. "I.I don't want to get hurt once again or hurt the other people around me. I.I don't know, I'm just tried of everything!" Serena exclaims as she curls herself into a tight little ball in the kitchen chair she's seating in. "Serena, what do you mean 'you don't want to get hurt once again or hurt the people around you'?" Darien asks as he seats down in the chair beside her. "Darien, all throughout my life every since I was 11 I've always either lost the people that were closest to me or they hurt me terribly. That's the main reason I got into racing, so I could lose myself in the sheer speed and dangerousness of being able to defy the laws of gravity if only for a short amount of time" Serena says as she starts to let the tear drops on her pants as images of her parents dying, Dylan dumping her, her best friend dying and more images came rushing back to her all at once. "Serena, I'm not going anywhere and I wont hurt you" Darien tells her softly as he pulls her into a hug, which she relaxes into and accepts gratuitously. Laughing lightly, "If you only knew how many times I've heard the phrase 'I'm not going anywhere', you'd be surprised." Serena tells him as she gently wipes the tears away, still encircled in his warm arms. "Well, how about I just tell you I won't hurt you and that I'll always be here for you no matter what?" Darien says softly in her ear. She slightly stiffens due to his warmth of his breath, the gentleness of his voice, and his breath in her ear. She relaxes just as quickly as she stiffened, "I like that idea." She tells him as she falls against his body. "I'm glade" he says softly and then they sat that way for a while in just pure blissful silent.
"Serena, I think you should go to bed" Darien says to Serena breaking their blissful silent as he notices her eyelids fluttering close every know and then. "I think you are right" Serena tells him as she breaks out of his warm embrace and begins to stagger to her room, but is then helped by Darien. "Let me help you" he says to her softly as he picks her up princess-style and carries her to her bedroom and lays her gently on her mattress and tucks her in a little. "Good night, Serena. I'll you in the morning to check-up on you." He tells her as he flashes her one of his smiles. "It's okay, I'll be fine" she mutters softly and then drifts off to sleep, but is then meet by Dylan and her repeating the same heartbreak, soul- shattering episode of him dumping her.
~*^^*~
I'm gonna leave her, so let me know what you think, kay ~_* ~*~*~Princess~*~*~